US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and method for generating a synthesis audio signal and for encoding an audio signal" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. RE50,693, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for generating a synthesis audio signal and for encoding an audio signal" was invented by Frederik Nagel (Nuremberg, Germany), Markus Multrus (Nuremberg, Germany), Jeremie Lecomte (Fuerth, Germany), Stefan Bayer (Nuremberg, Germany), Guillaume Fuchs (Bubenreuth, Germany), Johannes Hilpert (Nuremberg, Germany) and Julien Robilliard (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a synthesis audio signal using a patching control signal has a first converter, a spectral ...